PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 66, 23 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death occurred at the Bluff yest<olay afternoon of Mr Walter Henderson, aged ninety-one years, an old resident of Southland. #

The resignation of Dr. Crossley as Anglican Bishop of Auckland has been accepted by the Primate, and steps ci now be taken towards the elechis successor.

jj[ r Y. Falder, who met with a rather serious accident at the Regan Stieet railway crossing on May 26th, has now sufficiently recovered to be able to leave the Hospital.

The death occurred at Hawera on Saturday of Mr James Williamson, at the advanced age of 76 years. The deceased was well known on the coast, particularly in the Hawera, Kakaratnea, and Patea districts.

Mr J. R. I'- Stanford left for Auckland to-dav to he present at the wedding of his brother, Mr A. K. Stanford, to'Miss Ambrose, of Auckland. Mr J. R. L. Stanford expects to return on Friday morning.

Sir Edgar Vincent, Sir Rider Haggard, and Mr Garnett, who were recently in Australia and New Zealand with the Empire Trade Commission, returned to England last week. The Commission will resume in tho autumn.

Mrs Pullyn, an artist from England, has presented the No-License League with a charcoal portrait of the late Mr T. E. Taylor. The portrait is to be purchased by subscription, the amount thus realised to be an addition to the funds of the League.

The death of Mr David Roche, aged * seventy-seven, a former Mayor of Invercargill, is announced. Deceased airived in Australia in 185 S, and uas at Gabriel’s Gully and Nokomai rushes, and started business in Invercargill forty years ago. He took a prominent part in public affairs, and served on many local bodies.

t Lord Morley was once tho subject of a curious ho had joined the Roman Catholic Church. He never denied the rumour publicly, but in private he said it M might be accounted for in two ways: * So, 1, a niece in Ireland had become a mm. No. 2,. being extremely fond of music ho was* in the (habit of going, at times to ; the r ßrqmpton Oratory ■ervices. . in !■ ■ . i.

Very little lias been heard of Mr? Pankhitrst’s third daughter—Miss

Adelia —of late. At one time, com- • ments a contemporary, she took as .prominent a part in the suffragette movement as her sisters Ohristabol

and Sylvia. Now she has abandoned active propaganda work for gardening, which delightful career she pursues untroubled by the turmoil of hnngoi strikes, police courts, and the hundred and one excitements a militant is surrounded with. In appearance Adelia is smaller and less robust than her two more prominent sisters, but is really a forceful speaker.

H Princess Mary has her own suite of irooms now at Buckingham Palace, says the Daily Sketch. They are those which used to he occupied by her aunt, Princess Victoria, apc| have a charming view up Constitutional, Hill. They have been altered considerably for the present occupant, made all pink and rosy with white walls and woodwork. There is a schoolroom where her Royal Highness pursues her studies and does reading— a delightful room it is, with its chintz-covered chairs and bookcases filled with volumes all hound in rose leather, with the Princess’ own j k hook-plate within. Ruskin is one of I the authors the Queen approves her daughter’s perusal, and every one of his Avorks finds a place on these shelves. Princess Mary is as fond of her camera as the rest of her family, and she does not shirk developing her pectures herself. In fact, she regards it as the best part of the fun.